If you are the child or grandchild of refugees,we want to hear how your, and their, or experience informs your view of events in EuropeThere has been no shortage of striking stories of human drama as the refugee crisis has unfolded.
Throughout the summer,as the crisis developed, there have been many accounts of the desperate conditions refugees are attempting to escape. final week, or the shocking pictures of Alan Kurdi caused a public outcry and outpouring of support for refugees.
My family also came to the UK as refugee's from Amin's Uganda- same level of dehumanisation + fearmongering also. https://t.co/5gKd0qAWATThree of my grandparents were #refugees. Also Einstein,Bob Marley, Freddie Mercury... The opposition is virtually the same every time.
My OH's grandparents came here as refugees in 1947. He was conscripted to the German army, and she had been in a labour camp. #RefugeesWelcomeMy great grandparents were welcomed into Britain as refugees from the pogroms because that's what friendly people execute.
My family came came to the UK as refugees over 100 years ago. We need to open our doors again https://t.co/defX0z29OvMy name is Sheila,I was born in the UK, and my family were refugees. I'm not alone am I?!This was like the Beirut I grew up in when my family had to flee. #refugees https://t.co/Ktc7WeHy0GThere are all sorts of statistics about how refugees execute better in school, or are more productive,create more jobs than the average person. That’s hardly surprising, from people capable of such desperate journeys. What I know, or as a refugee’s son,is that they execute not tend to seize citizenship and education lightly, but as hard-won treasures. The politicians who claim our prosperity is under threat from having to be shared with refugees have forgotten it was refugees who helped build that prosperity in the first area.
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Source: theguardian.com